AS Albion Rovers aim for victory in Sunday's Scottish Cup quarter-final tie Ward insists his players have learned from their Ramsdens Challenge Cup defeat at the hands of Rangers.

ALBION Rovers manager James Ward is confident his side will not suffer from stage fright against Rangers again when they travel to Ibrox
for their Scottish Cup quarter-final clash on Sunday.

The Coatbridge side, who sit seventh in League Two, lost 4-0 to Ally McCoist's men in the first round of the Ramsdens Challenge Cup at Livingston's Energy Assets Arena on the first day of the season.

However, Ward believes his players will have learned from that defeat to the League One leaders as they look to cause another cup upset, having earlier dumped Scottish Premiership side Motherwell out of
the competition en route to reaching this stage of the competition for the first time in 80 years.

"We weren't ready for Rangers and on the day it was a poor performance," Ward told Press Association Sport.

"Our players didn't cope, there was a bit of stage fright and we didn't do ourselves justice.

"We are not that good that we can carry three or four passengers.

"But we are now better organised than we were that day and we have had that experience.

"We are confident that if we can do our job and play to our best then we will be set up to take advantage.

"But Rangers will need to have an off day and we will have to be at our best."

Rovers have sold out their 1,100 allocation for Ibrox, and among them will be some of the unsung heroes who work behind the scenes at the
club and whom Ward believes deserve to have a "smile on their faces."

"There has been a revelation at Albion Rovers since we beat Motherwell," said Ward, who had coached at Clyde, Hamilton Accies and Alloa Athletic under Allan Maitland, before joining Rovers last summer.

"There has been good news at a club who are used to dealing with negativity.

"The cup run is a reward for all the people who work for nothing at the club, the people who do things like organise the pies, clean the stadium and look after the pitch.

"If it wasn't for those people we wouldn't exist.

"They are all coming along and hopefully it will be a day to remember for the right reasons."

Ward will be without Ryan Donnelly who is cup tied while midfielder Liam Cusack broke a bone in his foot three weeks ago and is "highly unlikely" to feature.